you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so many i mean i have my hands i believe that i'm still the same thing really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's a little worse if you're going to. lie down six of a. radio guy and four minutes from the click. i want you to watch closely are about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. along folks i'm having are in the breaking the set so president obama arrived in

israel today what is now the most well documented trip the president has ever made along with a new mobile app that will let you track obama during his visit the israeli government is helping local contacts that finally trademarks they need a relationship between the two countries this would be official logo of baraki and b.b. twenty thirteen and as part of this big publicity stunt a bizarre video recently surfaced on the internet check out. things. thoroughly welcome president obama to express our appreciation for what is going through the fond between the united states and israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the united states to the security of israel is one hundred twenty. believe it or not because this isn't a parody this was actually uploaded by the israeli embassy in washington you know

their marketing campaign is so good that it almost makes me forget about all that warmongering. about iran and the apartheid being practiced against palestinians almost but not quite so well the corporate media continues to fixate on obama's holy land voyage al the break in the set. of the total number of you've never seen anything like. oh. wow. i'm really excited right now to introduce one of the few politicians that i actually admire talking about congressman dennis to finish one of the most honest credible politicians who ever served a man who spent his eighteen year tenure fighting for the issues that americans care the most about from the warning rock to the food we eat is always stood on the right side the side of truth which is why i'm honored to have the chance to speak

to congressman acoustic himself i first asked him about oil being a motivating factor for the iraq war particularly in light of bush's former speechwriter coming out to validate that claim and here's what he had to say. the very beginning it was very clear that there was no legitimate reason to go into iraq the only compelling reason would be to try to help corner the market on oil it didn't work out that way for those who thought that it would but the fact of the matter is oil was so. well known as to be a motivating factor that when i ran for president two thousand and four going cross the country i'd ask audiences tell me what this is about this war is about in three letters and thousands of people would respond simultaneously oil there it was it's not it was never a secret. in two thousand and seven congressman you actually introduced articles of impeachment against george bush and dick cheney when you look at things like nixon

being ousted for wiretapping clinton being ousted for an affair how is it that these two men could not be held accountable for initiating an illegal war based on known lies well i think we have to place. the responsibility for that on the shoulders of democratic leadership. because we could have moved forward with impeachment but the democratic leadership wouldn't do it now there has to be accountability there's a marker. it is widely understood today that war was based on lies so then should not since the catastrophe of the war resulted in thousands of americans being killed tens of thousands injured maybe a million innocent iraqis died perhaps damaged in the hundreds of billions of dollars to iraq should there be some kind of bill and so what i've called for is a process of truth and reconciliation like south africa had many years ago where

leaders are required to come forward and state their role in the decision making process and if they lie then they're subject to perjury charges we need to clear the air in america we need the truth and it's to every since everyone knows it was based on a lie and what's wrong with calling those who lied to us forward to not only require explanation but to clear the air absolutely i remember pelosi the times that impeachment was off the table i mean could it be that the democratic leadership was scared that they would open their can of worms and somehow be complicit in the lie well you know one third of the two thirds of democrats voted against going to war but the third that did vote ford were involved as were their counterparts in the senate in establishment types politics that favored war some of the leading senators who have become exalted public figures took a stand for that war and they've never been held accountable and even politically interestingly enough it would seem as though to be qualified to speak on foreign

policy even still today that you have to have been for the war even though it was based on lies that's the kind of upside down thinking that continues to guide foreign policy decisions in washington d.c. well speaking of upside down policy of obama's reason for not prosecuting or even investigating the bush officials was because he wanted to look forward not backward however i can't help but wonder why he continues to look backward to prosecute those who looks posed of war crimes as whistleblowers instead of the war criminals no good deed remains on punished and those who. the whistleblowers are being punished those who took us into war based on lies are being celebrated this inversion of reality is orwellian it needs to be. reckoned with and that's why i call for this period of truth and reconciliation and you know what this is all law enforcement about looking backwards actually hello. can agree were let's talk about that gas and war and in terms of looking backwards it was sold to

us as a war of necessity in a post nine eleven world of course bush at the time at a ninety five percent approval rating i don't blame people for voting for it thinking that we needed some form of retaliation but did you find the logic flawed now looking back do you regret your vote to invade and occupy a country to find one man we did not congress did not vote to invade and occupy they voted to give the president the ability to respond to the attack on nine eleven and frankly i think it was appropriate that the united states struck at the training camps and made the point that you are not going to attack the united states with impunity stop there and of story not invade and occupy and basically try to break a country that hasn't been successfully conquered in modern times so this this two points to the serious flaws in our foreign policy we have an obligation to

defend this country and i don't take a backseat to anyone in saying that if america is attacked we have a right to defend ourselves but it was absolutely. it was criminal to go and think that we're going to knock off the afghanistan occupied control that remake a country where a lot of it's just a box of rocks and what do we think who we think we are this is a major flaw it's two birds arrogance and we need to we need some explanation to the american people absolutely let's talk about your presidential run in two thousand. both you and ron paul were pretty much the leading antiwar figures of course on both sides of the spectrum of both parties i remember leftists and libertarians at the time calling for you guys to be running mates because you were so united against the wars and for the restoration of our civil liberties now these factions are so divided they're more divided than ever before and it just seems like without any representation to have us these dividing factions fighting each other instead of the forces that we should be fighting against is really

counterintuitive how do you think it got to be this way and how can we unite these factions to really focus on a cohesive unified opposition again i think that what ron paul and i have proved is that there is plenty of space in american politics for a new movement which goes across partisan lines which embraces the concerns of democrats and republicans liberals and conservatives that's based on the truth and protecting the constitution and taking care of our practical aspirations share at home and sharply curtailing this aggression that america has practiced around the world so i think you know ron paul and i have been able to demonstrate this capacity of creating new possibilities and frankly since the two parties continue to fail to address america's economic problems i think that the american people increasingly will be looking towards alternatives as we move towards a future i call it the two party dictatorship congressman let's talk about civil

liberties which is something that you have been very vocal about in your entire term rand paul i'm sorry at that his ethics filibuster not really supported by a single democrat i mean how is it that drones and due process are a partisan issue now well they shouldn't be and what happens in washington is this whatever party holds the white house their supporters in congress try to protect the president of their party but the president isn't just a. resident of parties president of united states and members of congress are just partisan participants in the process they are united states congress persons and what we have to remember is that both myself and ron paul rand's father raised this issue of the drones in the congress relentlessly brought a resolution in front of the congress force committee a committee they have to consider and you know this is finally people are starting to understand there are constitutional issues here and good for the scent of the

rand paul for raising the issue on the floor of the senate but we haven't resolved that we should you know this other countries are going to start to use drones imagine for a moment of china thought that it you know or any other nation thought that they could invade u.s. airspace with a drone as we invade other people's airspace we wouldn't stand for it how can we expect other countries to continue to stand by while we violate their sovereignty and their territorial integrity and then on a domestic level we've got to worry about the domestic use of drones won't be long mark my words that law enforcement domestically will start using these drones to go after suspects using armed force and they're counterintuitive abroad i mean it doesn't take a genius to see that killing people is drones is not a good way to fight quote terrorism and you served an epic eighteen year run and congress you were one of the most vocal leaders against the establishment line time and time again when you were redistricted did you feel that you were deliberately gerrymandered out of office because of your politics by the democrats. not by the

republicans it was democrats you know a legislature who went out of their way to totally distort the map in ohio and to cut my district up into four pieces making it impossible for me to win and now i can tell you i don't need just a fact i'm not bitter about it i you know i still have a home in washington a home in cleveland i can occasionally see the light of the capitol on i just want to know who's home. unbelievable when your own party. you know it turns against the ideals of this country was founded on when you did leave congress and the media portrayed you as friends i mean they even called you the congressman with the most wacky ideas yet the majority of americans support what you stood for how is it that this depiction is even allowed to exist and what damage does it do when people feel like they're marginalized for sharing the views that you had or one of those who

have never changed my position and you know when you when you stand for the truth it's very easy to understand that you take on certain interest groups who are going to try to marginalize you it is interesting as you point out that someone would try to characterize as fringe having opposed to war in iraq based on facts having challenges those who made the decision to cost our troops and our nation and the iraqi people so dearly having challenge other wars proven to be right again and again and again but you know what that means if the truth is that the fringe then what position is being celebrated. exactly exactly and you know you're speaking from an inside perspective you've been inside the system for so long when you look at things like monsanto like vermont not even able to pass the labeling law because of the fear of a lawsuit for months and i mean you also were one of the only people to try to get labeled. what is the i mean what does this say it do corporations essentially have

more power then then voter resolutions and how yes yes after buckley versus the lay on citizens united corporations took enormous power over our government to look they were able to get the bush administration and its waning days to be able to claim that the first bush administration to be able to claim in one thousand nine hundred three that genetically modified organisms are the functional equivalent of conventional food no science based on at all but the dollar bill as a science all of its own and so now you have hundreds of millions of acres of crops . and it would. general with general genetically modified organisms used to do that and we can't our markets are closing in europe as a result where people don't want these crops to commit and even more than that we have no idea as to the effects with respect to with respect allergenicity toxicity functional characteristics antibiotic resistance were part of a grand experiment now in our food and you know this is another one of the reasons why i eat organic and i'm

a vague and indeed we are and thank you for bringing those fringe ideas up to the mainstream and standing up for the truth that so many of us don't have a voice to share in the system thank you so much congressman dennis kucinich a huge fan. but you like what you see so far check us out on hulu at hulu dot com breaking the set and there you can watch the latest episode of the show like yesterday's which featured the iraq war ten years on media lies refugees in an ongoing civil war and also scroll through and watch every shows until the middle of the summer soco favor us and comment on how we're doing a good dot com slash break in the set right now lead to a break from my preaching but state to hear more about the iraq war and more war fear mongering next. to to.

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right now i'd like to explore another aspect of the iraq war in light of the tenth anniversary of the plight of war veterans and veterans suicides has now numbered the deaths in combat with one happening at a rate every sixty five minutes needless to say the suffering of u.s. soldiers goes far beyond the battlefield which is why i want to highlight iraq war veteran thomas young in a scathing letter addressed to bush and cheney young leaves for their day of reckoning as he lies on his deathbed he writes quote before my own death i want to make it clear that i and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans along with

hundreds of millions more know fully who you are and what you have done you may have justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of a group just war crimes of plunder and finally of murder including the murder of thousands of young americans my fellow veterans whose future use coal indeed his plight is shared by countless other veterans who suffer permanent disability mental illness or for a natural ruin from these wars so here to discuss the ongoing challenges facing veterans today i'm joined by mike prysner iraq war veteran and co-founder of the march forward mike thanks so much for coming on thanks for having me i'd be so i want to first ask you about this alarming rate of suicides the prevalence of mental health issues that are continuing to plague the vets why do you think that we're seeing an exponential growth in these statistics. well you know first of all i think that letter makes a very great point that those who knowingly lied to bring us to be iraq war and cause so much suffering for the iraqi people and for so many u.s.

service members these people are not in jail or in danger of being punished these people are on book tours and making millions of dollars off of talking about their role in the iraq war and so of course there is a great injustice there and you mentioned that the suicide numbers are staggering i mean one active duty. service member per day takes their own life and hundreds more attempts suicide every single month and that's not even counting veterans who get out of the military who commit suicide at a rate now of twenty two per day veterans of all generations and the reason is not a mystery in fact the pentagon survey survey that was conducted recently which surveyed active duty service members who had attempted suicide and failed the number one response that they got from those who is those service members was that they could not handle the situation they were in and they could not see any other way out now how many jobs can you think of where people in that job are killing

themselves in mass because they see no other way out of that situation the culture in the military is humiliation and ridicule from the superior officers from the chain of command towards people who seek help for post-traumatic stress disorder people who seek mental health services and fact we had a general general pittard who's a commanding general of a base with a high number of suicides publicly writing that soldiers are selfish for being suicidal and most of them are lying and melinda bring but even if you're lucky enough to be able to get treatment the treatment is grossly inadequate and many service members will tell you that the so-called treatment they are receiving from mental health on base or from the v.a. made their situation actually much worse wow that's really sad commentary the general said that it's selfish to take your own life i guess when you can't live with things that you've done or seen as a services weren't limited enough for returning vets and michael last year there was a cut to the g.i. bill and this year the sequester is cutting even more with tradition isn't so i

mean can you go over what these cuts will do and how detrimental they really are. sure well the tuition assistance was a very significant thing because as we know most people who join the u.s. military today come from very poor working class backgrounds people who dream of an education but have no access to an education people who want access to benefits like health care and housing and job training and so there's a lot of you recruiters exploit this economic draw to get young people into the military straight from high school tuition assistance was this program that is a major point for recruiters getting people into the military saying while you're on while you're in military service you can go to college for free take as many classes as you want work on your degree will pay for all of it so you can get out with even more skills than when you went in but cutting the twist as it is saying that now that is removed and so all those thousands and thousands of soldiers who joined specifically because of the educational benefits are now told that well they don't matter because we need that money for something else and that something else

that they needed money for one of them was the fact that congress gave itself a raise at the same time they were cutting tuitions assistance at the same time they were gutting the g.i. bill which is a main source of income for many iraq and afghanistan veterans so we have a situation where we have these rich politicians who are very rich and in fact a recent study found that you have to have at least ten million dollars to become a senator which is quite a bit of money these rich politicians who sent us to war for their rich friends on wall street all while saying that we support the troops and patting us on the back when they're sending us to war when we get back not only are we getting scraps from the table but even our scraps are being taken away there are billions of dollars for the defense industry and for the lavish lifestyles of these politicians you know when it comes to actually caring for service members when they return we're told that there is just not enough money and those things need to be got in this shows that these are wars for the rich

a foreign policy for the rich and people who are in the rank and file military have no reason to take part in. and i want to go back to the letter with about a minute left blames bush and cheney for stealing the future of millions of people in the need to hold someone accountable as someone who was in iraq for year what does that account of the accountability mean to you mike. it means jail for all of the people who lied to take us to war i mean george w. bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld colin powell everyone in the bush administration all of the media c.e.o.'s who propagated all of the lies all of the military commanders who lied and sent us to war knowing that the reasons were fabricated they need to be held responsible not just for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in the catastrophe created for u.s. soldiers but the complete catastrophe for millions of iraqis over a million who have died become refugees wounded and of course we can't talk about p.t.s.d. for u.s. soldiers without acknowledging that p.t.s.d. for an entire generation of iraqis is

a real reality millions and millions of people whose lives have been destroyed and so people want justice for all of these war criminals and people are fighting to win justice and one organization we are forward is working to help get this justice and also help that's opt out thank you so much mike prysner iraq war veteran and co-founder of march forward. so guys as you know this week marks the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of iraq but sadly you wouldn't know if you're just watching the corporate media because instead of apologizing for their complicity in helping to sell the iraq war they're too busy beating the war drums for the next to the. just check out this screenshot from my show just last night as i was covering colin powells allies the u.n. ten years ago c.n.n.

was speculating about chemical weapons in syria and at the same time fox was fear mongering about iran's new nonexistent nuclear weapons program man that cartoon bomb never gets old does it but in case you've been tuned out let me fill you in take a look. to syria now where the assad regime and rebel forces are both accusing one another of using chemical weapons syrian state media claimed yesterday that opposition forces as rebel forces launched a chemical attack and aleppo province killing at least two dozen people injuring more than one hundred people other violence to talk about syria's government and opposition are trading accusations tonight about the use of chemical weapons president obama has characterized such activity as a crossing a red line that theoretically would lead to harsh consequences. but of course the latest hot topic is an all too familiar one chemical weapons you know it's fascinating the media seems to do nothing but speculate about their existence or

whether or not the assad regime has even used them but despite all this uncertainty the chemical weapons hysteria has been leading the corporate news coverage but serious possible weapon of mass destruction is not the only source of national security fear induced by the corporate press of course we can't forget about the big other scary beast in the middle east see for yourself. has issued a blunt new warning tonight to iran about nuclear weapons and a.b.c.'s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is in the middle east to tell us what happened tonight and what it means under rolen international sanctions are affecting the iranian people but not impacting the nuclear program to sanctions or having an impact on iran leads to this point the sanctions those four have not induced a change in the routine government policy there may be some disagreements on how far along but on the fundamental question do the israelis trust the president obama

would if necessary use the military option he says they're shoulder to shoulder you know it's astonishing that on the tenth anniversary of a preemptive invasion of a sovereign nation based on known lies we're seeing the exact same thing happen all over again beating the same war tune in. same word drums using the exact same propaganda and the rare instances of the media admitting their complicity in bolstering the bush administration's unfounded claims about iraq they simply say we were all duped the american people and us and we're sorry perhaps the biggest weapon of mass distraction of all is that we weren't all do it just think back to the millions of people in this country and around the world that mobilized the biggest antiwar opposition since vietnam prior to the iraq invasion but they didn't listen the truth of the matter is that the media wasn't hoodwinked at all it had a set agenda to fill the agenda of war in a society that runs on perpetual warfare the corporate media functions as nothing

more than an apparatus in which the wars can be sold not to let them get away with it can because they can't keep selling it if we're not buying it. old. technology innovation all the developments around russia we are going to the future are covered. it is. easy.

to. get all sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit starting in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm.